Photomontage Hannah Hoch Analysis

. Hannah Höch is perhaps best known for her work in the emerging genre of ‘photomontage.’ What is photomontage? What was the primary subject of Höch’s photomontage work (202, 206)? Photomontage, created by Hoch between the1910s and 1930s, is the process of making a composite photograph by cutting, rearranging and gluing photographis into a new image.Hoch was drawn to photomontage for its topicality, ability it to go beyond social and political critique and commentary and to transform the real into something new and fantastic. In her photomontages she examines the how cyborgs broke down divisions between races, genders, species, and generations. Her photomontages include syntheses of humans and animals, humans and machines, people of different
What does the term ‘new woman’ refer to in the context of Weimar Germany (203-204)? What were some of the changes to women’s lives during this period? “New woman” refers to the new social roles adopted by women in the Weimar Republic, as well as the set of stereotypical images created by mass media the affected male and female behavior. The new woman is modern and transformed from the traditional types of Wilhelmine society, and connected to modernization, rationalization, and Americanization. It was a sign of representing the radical transformation of Germany after the war. She represented the new possibilities for women after the war, but she was also seen as a threat to the nation’s social, moral, economic, physical, and economic stability. Changes included, gaining the right to vote and stand for office, the number of women in white-collar and civil service jobs increased, and the proportion of women in higher education rose, and, thus, women were viewed as just as capable as men and new possibilities were projected onto women. The new woman was considered young, unmarried, consumerist, nonpolitical, masculine, and the main consumers of urban entertainment. She was as much a creation of the mass media, if not more, than a